Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] in the [num ord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless the data given in Table 7.2 are the most widely quoted , and illustrate that the area already affected is immense and that average rates of deforestation in these regions are sufficiently high that there is a real danger that forests will disappear altogether in the next 200 years , especially as reforestation is replacing only c. 10 per cent of the cleared forest ( Lanly 1982 ) . |
| 2 | Since only adults set up households , all those who will do so in the next 15 years are alive now , and we can estimate accurately how many will actually be alive in each age group — except perhaps for the oldest age groups — for at least that period ahead . |
| 3 | The report notes that if present trends continue , more than 100 million children will die needlessly in the next 10 years . |
| 4 | ANOTHER 400,000 jobs will go nationwide in the next 15 months , NatWest 's chief economist David Kern predicted yesterday . |
| 5 | CAPTAIN Will Carling last night told England to sing up and play up in the first 20 minutes or risk Naas Botha wrecking their hopes of winning today 's historic international at Twickenham . |
| 6 | Oxford Union treasurer Toby Lewis said : ‘ Mr Clinton has got very fond memories of Oxford and we are very optimistic he will come here in the first two years of office . |
| 7 | The number of two-car families doubled in the Fifties to reach fifteen per cent of American households ( and would double again in the next ten years ) . |
| 8 | Its population has doubled in the past ten years and will double again in the next ten ; its growth is due as much to the constant influx of newcomers from the Nile villages as to Egypt 's birth-rate . |